CBI arrests senior railways official in Rs 1-crore bribery case, conducts searches

The official is posted at the NFR headquarters in Maligaon in Assam, they said

The CBI on Sunday arrested a senior railway official for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 crore for allocating work to a private company.

Mahender Singh Chauhan, a 1985-batch Indian Railways Engineering Service (IRES) officer, was apprehended by the agency after it laid a trap on a tip-off, officials said.

The agency conducted searches at 20 locations in Delhi, Assam, Uttarakhand and two other states. Two of Chauhan's accomplices were also reportedly apprehended by the investigators.

Chauhan is posted at the Northeast Frontier Railway and is posted at its headquarters in Maligaon in Assam. Officials said the bribe money has been recovered.

He had allegedly demanded the bribe from the private company, promising them contracts for projects under the Northeast Frontier Railway.

Last week, the CBI had booked four of its officers, including two Deputy Superintendents of Police, for attempting to sabotage investigations into loan fraud cases.